The laundry has dried so much faster with the heat wave.  I love our solar dryer.  Free!  Smells great!  I get exercise. Wild black raspbe...

  The wild black raspberries are on early this year.  They are small, but tasty.   I have a lot of plantain in the flower beds, and I am hap...

I'm back!  I have discovered how much I can get weeded when we have no internet, ha ha!  Woke up to no internet on Wednesday morning.  F...

My mother wants to know why she hasn't heard from me.  You probably laughed at that, right? And here is why.  Grab a cup of your favor...

We have nothing but thistle growing in one tomato patch.  We put down a heavy layer of straw this year to prevent weeds and grass, but the t...

I've been having what I call "apron days" here lately.  Starting my day in the "garden" apron, then the "can...

While checking the garden I saw one plump shell pea pod.  I picked it to see check the size, so I know when to start picking them.  We eve...

The rain brought the wild black raspberries into harvest early this year, and it's hot, humid and miserable to pick them (as always).  ...

You are probably tired of hearing about it, but it continues to rain.  I woke up to the same wet ground again.  It has rained either dur...

Ideally, if we don't get any of one vegetable or fruit, we just do without.   However, we picked up 12 quarts of strawberries.  I too...

Sunday the humidity was terrible here.  Even so, I canned one batch of wild black raspberry jam, got caught up with laundry, garden work ...

Hubby spent most of the day wrestling with the mower.  He did have to order a part, which should arrive in a week or so.  I continue to w...

On Wednesday I noticed a few ripe wild black raspberries.  I picked those, and later checked another location.  It took a while to cut do...

Everyone needs a "watch cat" right?  Ha ha!  I guess Sapphire thought the top of Hubby's truck was the perfect spot for watc...

It's rained here almost every day for a week now.  Yesterday, was my first chance to weed the garden.  I was only out there for about ...

If Hubby had said to me, "let's not grow a garden this year" I would have said "okay."  Then I would have secretly...

We gathered about 10 cups of wild black raspberries and will go back for more.  I have already canned 6 jars of wild black raspberry jam...